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Josh Raffaelli , who has recondite roots as a Silicon Valley investor and has plunk for a telephone number of Elon Musk companies , is suing his former employer , the massive trillion - dollar AUM Brookfield Asset Management , report The New York Times .
Much of Raffaelli ’s ill care how Brookfield cover pandemic - colligate real the three estates loss and allege the company fired him after he file a whistle-blower ill at the SEC . His wooing makes allegation like fraud and graft , while Brookfield vehemently denies any wrongful conduct , it told The Times .
In February , Brookfield quietly shuttered the venture working capital unit run by Raffaelli and rolled some assets into another unit , Bloomberg report at the time . One of Raffaelli ’s complaints in the suit is that Brookfield did n’t corrupt as much stock in Musk - possess companies as he had secured the ability to buy .
Raffaelli had deals to corrupt into Musk companies like SpaceX , xAI , and the Boring Company , the suit allege . And his Brookfield fund was a crowing angel of Musk ’s takeover of Twitter , Bloomberg reported .
The causa is a very public engagement for Raffaelli , who previously worked as a partner at the VC firm then known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson . ( Today , it ’s a ingathering of funds . ) While at DFJ , Brookfield help that firm make investments into Musk company like SolarCity ( acquired by Tesla ) , SpaceX , and Tesla .
